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4.8 / 5.0
In LIFE WITH ABBEY: Our Adventures Across the Wilderness of Alaska and Beyond, Jarrett Humphreys succeeds at compellingly recounting his conquest of off-grid living and...
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Rating:
4.4 / 5.0
Michael Schwartz's I'M ONLY A GOOD DADDY BECAUSE YOUR MOMMY DIED offers trauma survivors a light to shine through the darkness. It movingly demonstrates that,...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
Bill Berry’s OFF COURSE ON PURPOSE: A Story About Chasing the Impossible delivers a thoughtful, well-crafted meditation on reinvention—ultimately rewarding readers who value intention and...
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March 19, 2026
RAISING ATHENA: A Mother and Daughter Attend West Point Thirty Years Apart
By MyLinh Brewster ShattanRating:
4.7 / 5.0
Benefiting from lucid prose and thoughtful, experience-driven analysis, Mylinh Brewster Shattan's RAISING ATHENA: A Mother and Daughter Attend West Point Thirty Years Apart is an...
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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
Many family memoirs hold little to engage a more general readership, but LIVING MEMORIES: A Memoir stands apart. Nellie Gail Moulton proves to be an...
March 13, 2026
REFLECTIONS ON LIFE’S ILLUSIONS: A Memoir of Culture and Consciousness
By Jane GallagherRating:
3.0 / 5.0
Jane Gallagher’s REFLECTIONS ON LIFE’S ILLUSIONS: A Memoir of Culture and Consciousness is a thoughtful and wide‑ranging memoir‑as‑cultural‑map, offering rich observation and a deeply reflective...
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4.2 / 5.0
Tracing the author's evolution from being a “good girl” who wasn't prepared for certain traps to transforming into her most genuine self, Anna Storm’s memoir...
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3.8 / 5.0
Full of fun facts, dry wit, and a search for belonging that readers are sure to find alluring, C.S. Beaty's LOSER*: A Survival Guide to...
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
Helen Lapada’s FIGHT LIKE HEL: Fourteen Battle-Tested Principles for Resilience is a witty, engaging, and warm-hearted take on the ins and outs of cancer diagnosis...
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Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
In THE BOOK OF JACK: An Asylum Tap Dance, F. Scott Service delivers a poignant, finely crafted work of creative nonfiction whose reflective prose and...
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Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Nuanced in its thinking and rich with detail, Richard A. Berliner's A DIFFERENT JOURNEY: Vietnam 1965-1973 is a moving account of life in Vietnam during...